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Opinion should be done and soon, because they were licenced, legal, responsible, respectable businessmen providing the public with products that conformed to the; first article of the American Constitution Le. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A product. that properly used was certainly an adjunct to gracious living. A product that reduced stress and increased con viviality. From the sale of these products, th ey were one of the the largest contributors to Federal and P rovincial tux coffers. The in (This comment on current abuses in dustry was a leading source of liquor advertising is inserted in th e issue foreign exchange. courtesy of the Manitoba liquor Control T hey were so self-righteous it Commission). was sickening. Let's face facts. Alcohol in any At long last the Association of form - wine, beer or spirits, is a Canadian Distillers has recognized DRUG. That is not necessarily an the fact that the veritable barrage evil word. Without drugs the world of unfavourable publicity being would be in a terrible mess. It is directed at the Beverage Alcohol the people who use drugs to excess Industry might create an at- who create problems. Fortunately mosphere which can possibly lead they constitute a minority of to the imposition of controls and drinkers, about 5 percent. T his month I single out for con directives by the Government, which would be repugnant to the structive criticism the Brewing Ingroup. As legal, licenced, responsi- dustry. The advertising this group ble and respectable businessmen, presents on our most powerful they became aware that it is most medium television (in Ontario and important that steps be taken to Quebec), is to my mind the main counteract the propaganda being cause for concern rel ative to the stirred up by minority pressure demand s that advertisin g be groups. From these groups have prohibited or restricted. I'm fed up come many suggestions on just to the ears with the sage, cute how to control the alcohol abuse remarks Carl Holman makes in problem. Retail prices should be the Carlsberg Beer commercial. raised (prohibition by taxation); Does the Canadian public need a advertising should be curtailed or man with a Danish accent con eliminated; the permisive drinking stantly needling on "the glorious age should be raised; the alcohol beer of Copenhagen?" It must be apparent to even a content of products should be six-year-old child that the Great lowered; etc., etc., etc. So what did the industry D ane is trying to convey the imgentlemen do? They held a pression that only the Danes know meeting, and they discussed the how to make beer and if you drink problem and they all went back to this " glorious" beer you are really their offices satisfied there was a with it. T hese commercials, again to my problem and that something m ind, border very closely to should be done. They were not quite sure what, but something becoming false advertising. Come

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By Jim Clarke. managing editor on . feilows, sh ip Carl back to the j Tivoli Gardens and the Little Mermaid and along with him that jerk in the background who makes his own beer and has all the caps blown off. And while ,,\le are at it, let's blow up the Labatt blue balloon. While I have travdled the world, I have lived all my life in Canada and I have never seen a balloon. I am sure, however, that there must be thousands of youngsters who will associate the blue balloon with high adventure and Labatt$ Blue with the same. Could this be subliminal persuasion ? I thought it was prohibited, Last but not least, our good friends at Molson. They sa.y the pun is the lowest form of humour. As a ru le the best a new pun can expect, is an amused chuckle. The constant repetition of Molson's fun- pun commercials produce only loud groans from members of our household. There you have it, gentlemen of the Canadian Beer Cartel. I accuse you and you alone of creating the situation which is causing pressure groups to demand restriction of ad·vertising. The distillers use no r adio or T .V. advertising. Canadian and imported wines use a very small amount because they don't have the budget. And so I say to C'n you executives in the Canadian Brewing Industry, please get with it. After reading th is editorial and instructing your advertising agencies to ban Bai forev(;r. lake time out to take a nother look at what you are doing to this industry. Take a good long look at your TV commercials. Don't forget too, that alcohol consumed in beer in Canada is almost double that consumed in distilled products. Don't forget this al.cohol IS a drug. A drug which if used intelligently, can be a boon ; a drug which if abused, can become a bomb!

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The cover: A 1913 wedd ing in Morden is th e subjec t of Bett y Dyck's story on page 7 and th e wedd ing photo on th e cover wa s taken a year afte r the wedding. Earl y Niverville is the subject of th e two photos on t he left, on top the John Churc h barn built in 1913, and an aerial vi ew of Niverville in th e 1930's.

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by Betty Oyck A borrowed bride's dress and a trip to the photographer on a motorcycle··that is what Helena Dyck talks about when you ask abo ut her wedding . The 1970's? No, 1912. June is traditionally label led the bride's month , but weddings take place any month of the year. Helena Warkentin of Glencross chose the month of August for her marriage to Jacob Dyck. Today we live in an era where you can rent everything from clothes to cars . Back in 1912 in rural Manitoba, it was not that easy. What to do then, on the day before your wedding when the dress you ordered from Simpson's catalogue fails to arrive? With the pioneer spirit still strong, Helena dispatched a horse and rider across the eight country miles to her good friend Mrs. Justina Walkof . Back came the rider with Mrs. Walkof's wedding dress wrapped in a paper bag. A few deft tucks here and there helped to fit the dress to Helena's slender form. Jacob, the groom, arranged to borrow his brother-in·law's (to be) new serge suit because a teacher's salary in those days did not allow for such a luxury. The small wedding was held on Sunday, August 4, 1912 in the garden at the Warkentin home near Glencross with family and close friends in attendance. Prior to the wedding, Helena had been working on Isaac Fehr's f arm stacking sheeves. Some work still remained to be don e . Monday morning, the con sc ient ious bride returned to the farm for a few days to finish her contract. Th en Helena and Jacob lived at Warkentin's until February when the school board purchased a horse doctor's office in Morden and hauled it onto the Glencross school yard to serve as a teacherage. The infamous wedding dress had arrived from Simpson 's the day after the wedding. Mrs . Dyck decided to keep it. In the spring of 1913, Jacob bought a new suit and they made an appointment to have a wedding picture taken. Helena carefully folded her new wedding dress and put it in a paper bag, then climbed onto the motorcycle behind Jacob. They sped across the country side to the photographer in Morden. Over the years the wedding picture, preserved behind glass and mounted in an ornate, oval, gold frame adorned the walls in many teacherages··at Scilanzenfeld, Wakeham, Burwalde, Zion and Greenfarm before becoming a permanent fixture in Altona. The Dycks moved to Altona in 1941 and Mr. Dyck taught in the public school until 1959. He died in 1970. Since that time Helena has resided at the Ebenezer Home in Altona. The wedd ing picture is a prized possession and hangs in a prominent place in her room. With a twinkle in her eye, Helena likes to relate the story of her borrowed wedding dress. mm

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Eggs and "Englishmen" Are Highlight of Visit to Niverville by Roy Vogt Wednesday· April 21 Niverville is known in Mennonite history as the site of the first Mennonite landing in 1874. William Schroeder has done a lot of personal research on this area in the past few years and every time I travel to the junction of the Rat and Red River, a few miles south·west of Niverville, I know from Schroeder's work approxiamately where the large sheds stood that housed the first immigrants. The mind wanders back easily to those days. How did the settlers feel after that long difficult journey from Russia, setting foot on this rather bleak and strange landscape? On this particular morning, a fast highway takes me to Niverville from Winnipeg in half an hour. A modern car spoils some of the feeling for the past. I arrive at Dyck's Hatcheries at 9:00 a.m. and am given a very interesting tour of the hatchery by Jack Dyck, the principal owner. Jack's good wife Helene works in the office in the morning, while he looks after the mechanical and business end of the enterprise. Jack is the son of the late Rev. William Dyck, a pioneer in the Niverville area and for many years one of its leading business men as well as one of its spiritual leaders. As Jack shows me through the hatchery, I am reminded of the fact that almost every activity in life becomes unbelievably complicated once one gets to know it better. Each operation has its unique equipment and its special mystique and the business of hatching chicks is no exception. Modern science has taken the hatching of chicks to the point where their emergence from the egg can be timed almost to the hour. When I first walked into the barn, I didn't know that more than 40,000 chicks were waiting to be born in those numerous incubators and that their birth, as well as their subsequent delivery to feeder farms had already been well planned in advance. Chalk it up to the ignorance of a poor city slicker. I discovered that within fortY'eight hours of its emergence from the shell, a chick received more personal attention than some human beings may receive in a lifetime. First of all, each chick must be vaccinated against cancer. The needle used to do this can be inserted only so far or the chick will be killed. It requires special expertise.

Special expertise is also required to determine the sex of the chicks so that the decision can be made where they shall be eaten or exterminated (the fate of most males) or whether they shall live to breed another day (the lot of the females). A Japanese couple performs the very precise job of determining the /3ex of the chicks. The thought of peering up the vents of about forty thousand chicks a day to determine their sex overwhelms me. I respect the ability of this couple, and their tenacity, but I cannot say that I envy them. After the job of sex identification each chick must be debeaked, which involves a rather smelly process. This is done so that the helpless·looking little creatures won't kill each other. I was extremely fascinted by the intricacy of the operation and now when I see a chick in one of those cute ads I will have more respect for the care that has been given it. The profit margin in this business is very low at the time due to severe competition from the U. S. so Jack and his partners have had to work extremely hard in the past few years to build up their business. I personally have a very high regard for this kind of dedication and enterprise. Jack's brother Dave was there on a visit from California. He is also a native of Niverville but appears to enjoy the warmer climes of Fresno and the real estate business there. Another brother, Bill, is also in Fresno where he and his wife, Velma, nee DeFehr, are very successful dentists. On this trip I was also interested in exploring the history of Niverville and I thought it might be good for a change to look at it from the Anglo·Saxon point of view. Some English settlers arrived almost immediately after the Mennonites and I knew that some of their ancestors . the Harrisons, Wallaces, Churches and Witticks, still have their roots there. Jack Dyck put me in contact with Mrs. Church, widow of the later Mr. Charles Church, one of the pioneers of the village. I subsequently spent a pleasant half hour with Mrs. Church, in which she told me about some of the experiences that they have had in the community. I sometimes have the impression that we Mennonites sometimes think that "outsiders" are not able to see into or through us, but in talking to Mrs. Church I found this obviously wasn't true. She

has a very positive appreciation of the Mennonite contribution to communities like Niverville, but I gather that her life has also been made more interesting by the often humorous attempts of the Mennonites to appear more pious that they are. Members of the English community have tried in vain to understand why wearing eye shadow is less immoral than wearing lipstick, or. why people would buy new cars but try to cover up the lUxury of these cars by having them black and without chrome. She said they were also much aware of the difference between the Canadian Mennonites and the later Russian Mennonites. Mrs. Church now lives on the outskirts of the town on her original farm site. A large bam, see cover, which she and her husband built In 1912, is now being torn down and it is clear from her feelings that she is not sure if this is a sign of progress. Later, as I drove back to the centre of town, I saw that the roof of this barn had already been removed and the walls would come tumbling down in a few days. One more pioneer building was falling prey to the wrecker. After my meeting with Mrs. Church I was able to spend a few minutes with Mr. George Sawatzky, manager Of the Niverville Credit Union. Mr. Sawatzky said that the experience of the credit union recently has been Similar to that In Winkler, namely, savings have been very high, but so has loan demand. At the present time almost no money is available for loans, although he indicated this could change suddenly. I dropped in to see Alex Fast of William Dyck and Sons, the local lumber company, but he was out at that time. The Dycks have just built a brand new store front and were in the process of tearing down the old one in front. The new store is certainly a vast improvement over the old one. The old face of Niverville is rapidly disappearing. After that, it was off to Steinbach for a meal of verenicke at my home and a repair job in one of Steinbach's auto shops. Later, I was able to contact Mr. Norman Wittick, now a resident of Winnipeg, but a member of a pioneer family of Niverville. He is al80 an amateur historian and hopes to complete a book on Niverville sometime in the future. mm

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